30 Days Writing Meme -- Question Nineteen

19. Favorite minor that decided to shove himself into the spotlight and why!

Randall from "Human Nature" was never meant to be one of the leads of that book. When the bunny first struck, it was strictly Gage/Dominic. The first scene that came to mind was the one near the start of the book with Dominic in front of the fireplace in wolf form while Gage interrogates him, and, obviously, Randall is nowhere in sight in that scene. I thought he was just a background character, at the most a conduit between Gage and Dominic when they weren't *ahem* seeing eye-to-eye. Which was most of the time.

Then I started to actually write the damn thing... Gage was far too invested in Randall for a simple master/servant relationship, and if the book was strictly Gage/Dominic, why was the wolf making eyes at the help?!

The funny thing is, Randall is still a conduit between Gage and Dominic when they don't see eye-to-eye (which, yep, is still most of the time) but in a far more intrinsic way than I first thought. His shift from background to main character opened up Gage and Dominic's characters in ways the twosome relationship could never do. It made HN an entirely different story to the one it would've been otherwise.